News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

Gut instinct for numbers works in animals, too. March 16, 2014— -- Find algebra difficult? Well, think about this: Scientists find that even 5-year-old kids can do it. Now do you feel better? If ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y. For those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...

A basic algebra equation has left people divided over the correct process for solving it, with two methods resulting in two completely different answers. The debate around the problem hinges on the ...

American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 120, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 1277-1287 (11 pages) A theorem of Cassidy states that any Zariski closed differential algebraic subgroup of a simple linear algebraic ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...